Planning for uncertainty with simulation and optimization
How companies can move beyond point forecasts by combining scenarios, predictive models and optimization to improve decisions under volatile conditions.
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Chemicals and process industries
Protect competitiveness and unlock portfolio value as feedstock, energy, capacity and regional economics reshape process industries.
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Articles
The digital customer journey is becoming the market
How discovery, experience and behavioral signals across digital channels can reveal where demand is forming before revenue shows it.
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AI is forcing software companies to question the economics of software itself
Agents can automate work previously performed inside applications, putting pressure on user-based pricing and established SaaS product boundaries.
Telecom operators still face the problem of turning network investment into growth
AI, network APIs and sovereign digital infrastructure create new opportunities, but connectivity economics remain difficult to escape.
Strategic challenges
When does autonomous mobility become cheaper than human-operated transport?
The challenge is moving from technical capability to fleet economics that remain viable after vehicles, supervision, maintenance and infrastructure are counted.
Can governments scale AI without scaling public-sector risk with it?
The challenge is moving beyond pilots while strengthening data governance, procurement, transparency and evidence that technology actually improves services.
POV
Semiconductor sovereignty cannot be bought simply by building more fabs
Real autonomy requires an ecosystem across design, equipment, materials, manufacturing and packaging, not isolated domestic capacity.
Food supply can be globally abundant and commercially fragile at the same time
Aggregate availability matters less when the specific ingredient, route or origin a business depends on becomes constrained.
Strategic impact
Consumer pressure is forcing harder choices across brands, formats and price points
More granular demand patterns are exposing where portfolios genuinely earn preference and where scale merely protects legacy complexity.
Autonomy could change the utilization economics of transportation assets
Higher operating hours and algorithmic dispatch may reshape fleet productivity where technology and regulation permit scaled deployment.
What we observe
Private-capital portfolios often look diversified while underlying exposures converge
Shared borrowers, similar financing structures and overlapping strategies can create more correlation than fund-level labels suggest.
Mining strategies often focus on reserves while underestimating midstream concentration
A diversified mine portfolio can still rely on highly concentrated processing capacity, creating a different form of strategic dependency.